BA pilots settle
British Airways pilots who are members of BALPA have accepted a revised pay offer, the union has confirmed.
Some 1,700 flights due to carry nearly 200,000 passengers were grounded during a two-day strike in September, with Heathrow Airport worst affected by the walkout.
British Airways had offered a pay rise of 11.5% over three years but pilots demanded a larger share of the airline’s profits.
BALPA general secretary Brian Strutton said during the strike that its members had taken “big pay cuts to help the company through hard times”.
The final deal is still worth the same 11.5% over three years, and does not have the profit-sharing scheme pilots demanded, but has some concessions on rosters and working issues.
On 16 December, the union said that members had voted nearly nine to one to accept the final offer from the company as proposed through the conciliation service Acas.